See Also: Himalayan(dictionary)
Himalayan Restaurant(tourism)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)
gastric pit(medicine)
gastric(dictionary)
gastric(dictionary)
Gastric(health)
Gastric(medicine)

gastric balloon (medicine) and Himalayan (iou)


gastric balloon (medicine)


gastric balloon


An inflatable device implanted in the stomach as an adjunct to therapy of morbid obesity. Specific types include the silicone Garren-Edwards gastric bubble (gegb), approved by the FDA in 1985, and the ballobes balloon.


Himalayan (iou)



Himalayan adjective. M19.
[from Himalaya mountains in Nepal (Sanskrit, from hima snow + alaya abode) + -AN.]
Of, pertaining, or belonging to the Himalayas; fig. enormous, vast.
Himalayan balsam: see BALSAM noun 6(b). Himalayan MONAL.